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Information

  • Info (Alt+I): type, size, permissions, owner and group, dates (modification, access and change), inode, links and device of the file or directory; for a link, where it points; for a directory, also what is logged in it and in its branch.
  • Avail (A in the tree): the mounted file systems with total, used, free and % used, like df.
  • Statistics (?): what the window has logged, the list, the tagged files and the disk (mount point, free and used); below it, the machine (system and kernel, CPU, uptime, load, memory and swap, shell, terminal), the network (addresses of each interface, gateway and DNS) and Xylem itself (version, PID, memory, executable and configuration file).

Directory sizes (Alt+K)

Shows to the right of each directory in the tree the Size (total in K), the Count of files or the Percent; None turns it off. Before choosing, All or Tagged count all files or only the tagged ones, and Branch or Directory add up the whole branch or just the directory. Directories not yet logged show ?. Each window has its own setting.

Percent shows how much of the directory above each branch takes, and a bar: the largest directory among its siblings fills it, and the others are drawn in proportion, so the one taking the space stands out. Its color says how much of the directory above it is: up to 10% (green, in most themes), up to 40% (amber) or more (red). It always adds up whole branches. The files of the directory above count in its total, so the shares of its subdirectories may add up to less than 100%. To find what fills a disk, log the branch with * first: a directory not yet logged counts as empty. With Google Drive or S3 mounted through rclone, this is how to find what fills them: see Cloud storage. For a whole disk, the Usage view (Alt+W) does more: files and folders together, the space on the disk, hard links counted once.